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APPLKQATIOIN FILED MAY 13. 1919.

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JOHN PAULAUSKI, 0F CIGERO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1919.

Original application filed. October 31, 1918, Serial No. 260,490. Divided and this application filed May 13, 1919. Serial No. 296,823.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN PAULAUSKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cicero, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Airships, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to air-craft and more particularly to the controlling means thereof, the present application being a division of the application filed October 31, 1918, Serial No. 260,490.

This invention has for its object to providea novel and improved controlling means as will be pointed out in the detailed description appearing hereinafter; and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is an elevation of an air-ship showing the application of the invention thereto, and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the elevating plane.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 5 denotes the body of the air-ship, the same being provided with front and side propellers 6 and 7 respectively, and a rudder assembly 8 at the rear.

The craft is also provided on each side with fore and aft elevating planes 31 and 32, respectively. Each plane is carried by a medial rock shaft 32 entering the shell 10 through a frame plate 33 mounted on the latter, and to the rock shaft is fixed a hand lever 35 for operating the same to tilt the plane at the desired angle. The frame plate 33 carries a toothed sector 34 engageable by a spring latch on the hand lever for locking the same.

The front and rear edges of the plane have inwardly extending rods 36 passing through arcuate slots 37 in the shell 10 and similar slots 38 in the frame plate 33. Each rod carries a pinion 39 which is in mesh with a curved rack 39 on the plate 33. Adjacent to each pinion 39 is a spring bolt 40' which normally impedes movement of the pinion and locks the same against travel over the rack 39*. The bolt may be withdrawn by a lever l1 carried by the lever 35 and acting on a pull wire 42. Thus, when the lever 35, with both levers 41, are gripped, a release of the plane is at once effected, and the shaft 32 may then be rocked to set the plane at the desired angle.

I claim:

1. In an aerial vessel, an elevating plane, a medial rock shaft carrying said plane, means for rocking said shaft, rods projecting laterally from the plane on opposite sides of the shaft, guides in which the rods work, and means for locking the rods in said guides.

2. In an aerial vessel, an elevating plane, a medial rock shaft carrying said plane,

means for rocking said shaft, rods projecting laterally from the plane on opposite sides of the shaft, guides in which the rods work, pinions on the rods, curved racks with which the pinions mesh, and means for locking the pinions to the racks.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOHN PAULAUSKI.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

